Category: Vorstellung

A film by Ruth Beckermann. In German with English subtitles.

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“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 child­ren and their dedi­ca­ted tea­cher. We wan­ted to find out who they are and beco­me fami­li­ar with their skills and stra­te­gies, their joys, fears and hard­ships,” says direc­tor Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 per­cent of all child­ren in Viennese pri­ma­ry schools do not speak German as their first lan­guage. At the same time, the­re is an acu­te shorta­ge of tea­chers and super­vi­sors. Such adver­se con­di­ti­ons are the start­ing point of Ruth Beckermann’s docu­men­ta­ry Favoriten, for which the Austrian film­ma­ker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher fol­lo­wed a Viennese pri­ma­ry school class for three years. The result is an asto­nis­hin­gly cheerful por­trait of an unu­su­al com­mu­ni­ty. A film about tea­ching and lear­ning and the often very sur­pri­sing expe­ri­en­ces some­whe­re in between.

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AT 2024, 118 Min.
Regie: Ruth Beckermann
Kamera: Johannes Hammel
Schnitt: Dieter Pichler

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A film by Fabian Stumm. In German with English subtitles.

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Joseph and Sonya share an inti­ma­te fri­end­ship and their young son, whom they’re rai­sing tog­e­ther. While Joseph, a film direc­tor, is dou­bly preoc­cu­p­ied with a new idea for a film and with the after­math of a pre­vious rela­ti­onship, Sonya suf­fers from depres­si­on. When she is hos­pi­ta­li­zed, Joseph must jugg­le both his ever­y­day com­mit­ments and his artis­tic ambitions.

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DE 2024, 96 Min., deutsch-eng­lisch-schwe­disch-ita­lie­ni­sche Originalfassung, teil­wei­se mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Fabian Stumm
Kamera: Michael Bennett
Schnitt: Kaspar Panizza
mit Fabian Stumm, Haley Louise Jones, Justus Meyer, Ulrica Flach, Jonas Dassler, Godehard Giese, Marie-Lou Sellem

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A film by Ruth Beckermann. In German.

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“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 child­ren and their dedi­ca­ted tea­cher. We wan­ted to find out who they are and beco­me fami­li­ar with their skills and stra­te­gies, their joys, fears and hard­ships,” says direc­tor Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 per­cent of all child­ren in Viennese pri­ma­ry schools do not speak German as their first lan­guage. At the same time, the­re is an acu­te shorta­ge of tea­chers and super­vi­sors. Such adver­se con­di­ti­ons are the start­ing point of Ruth Beckermann’s docu­men­ta­ry Favoriten, for which the Austrian film­ma­ker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher fol­lo­wed a Viennese pri­ma­ry school class for three years. The result is an asto­nis­hin­gly cheerful por­trait of an unu­su­al com­mu­ni­ty. A film about tea­ching and lear­ning and the often very sur­pri­sing expe­ri­en­ces some­whe­re in between.

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AT 2024, 118 Min.
Regie: Ruth Beckermann
Kamera: Johannes Hammel
Schnitt: Dieter Pichler

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A film by Aslı Özarslan. In German and Turkish with German and English subtitles.

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Hazal’s grea­test wish is to have a life. In spi­te of many appli­ca­ti­ons, she isn’t invi­ted to a sin­gle job inter­view. Instead, she is stuck in a Job Centre trai­ning pro­gram that fails to open up any new oppor­tu­ni­ties for her. But on her 18th bir­th­day, Hazal feels powerful. It is like the old days when she and her fri­ends belie­ved they could achie­ve any­thing as long as they stuck tog­e­ther. It’s only when they’re queu­e­ing to get into a hip club that Hazal feels they don’t belong the­re. And she’s right. The boun­cer refu­ses to let them in. On their way home, they’re ver­bal­ly abu­sed by an arro­gant stu­dent. The situa­ti­on escala­tes, Hazal’s frus­tra­ti­on about all the rejec­tions erupts into a fatal act. Hazal flees head­long to Istanbul, a stran­ge city in a coun­try unknown to her. There, she has to sur­vi­ve on her own, no mat­ter what the cost.
Ellbogen tells the sto­ry of a young woman who is pushed out of socie­ty and has to reset the cour­se of her life. We want to run through the night with her; we want to know what hap­pens next – for her, and for us all.

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DE/TK/FR 2024, 86 Min., Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Aslı Özarslan
Kamera: Andac Karabeyoglu-Thomas
Schnitt: David J. Achilles, Ana Branea
mit: Melia Kara, Doğa Gürer, Jale Arıkan, Haydar Şahin, Orhan Kiliç, Jamilah Bagdach, Asya Utku, Mina Sağdıç 

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A film by Ruth Beckermann. In German with English subtitles.

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“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 child­ren and their dedi­ca­ted tea­cher. We wan­ted to find out who they are and beco­me fami­li­ar with their skills and stra­te­gies, their joys, fears and hard­ships,” says direc­tor Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 per­cent of all child­ren in Viennese pri­ma­ry schools do not speak German as their first lan­guage. At the same time, the­re is an acu­te shorta­ge of tea­chers and super­vi­sors. Such adver­se con­di­ti­ons are the start­ing point of Ruth Beckermann’s docu­men­ta­ry Favoriten, for which the Austrian film­ma­ker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher fol­lo­wed a Viennese pri­ma­ry school class for three years. The result is an asto­nis­hin­gly cheerful por­trait of an unu­su­al com­mu­ni­ty. A film about tea­ching and lear­ning and the often very sur­pri­sing expe­ri­en­ces some­whe­re in between.

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AT 2024, 118 Min.
Regie: Ruth Beckermann
Kamera: Johannes Hammel
Schnitt: Dieter Pichler

Trailer:

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A film by Fabian Stumm. In German with English subtitles.

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Joseph and Sonya share an inti­ma­te fri­end­ship and their young son, whom they’re rai­sing tog­e­ther. While Joseph, a film direc­tor, is dou­bly preoc­cu­p­ied with a new idea for a film and with the after­math of a pre­vious rela­ti­onship, Sonya suf­fers from depres­si­on. When she is hos­pi­ta­li­zed, Joseph must jugg­le both his ever­y­day com­mit­ments and his artis­tic ambitions.

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DE 2024, 96 Min., deutsch-eng­lisch-schwe­disch-ita­lie­ni­sche Originalfassung, teil­wei­se mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Fabian Stumm
Kamera: Michael Bennett
Schnitt: Kaspar Panizza
mit Fabian Stumm, Haley Louise Jones, Justus Meyer, Ulrica Flach, Jonas Dassler, Godehard Giese, Marie-Lou Sellem

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A film by Julia Charakter. Starts September 26th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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In Korntal, a small town of 9,000 souls in Baden-Württemberg, hundreds of child­ren were abu­sed in the homes of the Evangelical Brethren sin­ce the 1950s. Forced labour, phy­si­cal punish­ment and sexua­li­sed vio­lence were the order of the day. To date, more than 150 for­mer child­ren have bro­ken their silence, more than 80 per­pe­tra­tors have been iden­ti­fied. Because the lat­ter cover­ed for each other and the neigh­bours loo­ked away, the child­ren were defen­ce­l­ess against the abu­se for deca­des. When the scan­dal was expo­sed in 2013, the com­mu­ni­ty and the vil­la­ge were hosti­le at first: That which must not be can­not be. It was only when the pres­su­re from the out­side grew that the com­mu­ni­ty initia­ted a pro­cess of deal­ing with the scan­dal. But it is con­tro­ver­si­al: vic­tims are re-trau­ma­tis­ed, their state­ments doub­ted. To this day the child­ren from Korntal are fight­ing for inves­ti­ga­ti­on and compensation.

The film focu­ses on the vic­tims and avo­ids all dra­ma­tis­a­ti­on. What hap­pen­ed was dra­ma­tic enough, after all. When tes­ti­mo­nies are only play­ed as audio-recor­dings to pro­tect the spea­k­ers, a simp­le ani­ma­ti­on fills the visu­al gaps. When tho­se respon­si­ble today speak, the came­ra stays res­trai­ned and does not judge. That is not neces­sa­ry any­way, becau­se the incon­ceiva­ble rela­ti­vi­sa­ti­on of the cri­mes speaks loud­ly enough – in Korntal as else­whe­re.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE 2023, 90 Min., Deutsch mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Julia Charakter
Kamera: Jonas Eckert
Schnitt: Jonas Eckert, Julia Charakter 

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A film by Aslı Özarslan. In German and Turkish with German and English subtitles.

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Hazal’s grea­test wish is to have a life. In spi­te of many appli­ca­ti­ons, she isn’t invi­ted to a sin­gle job inter­view. Instead, she is stuck in a Job Centre trai­ning pro­gram that fails to open up any new oppor­tu­ni­ties for her. But on her 18th bir­th­day, Hazal feels powerful. It is like the old days when she and her fri­ends belie­ved they could achie­ve any­thing as long as they stuck tog­e­ther. It’s only when they’re queu­e­ing to get into a hip club that Hazal feels they don’t belong the­re. And she’s right. The boun­cer refu­ses to let them in. On their way home, they’re ver­bal­ly abu­sed by an arro­gant stu­dent. The situa­ti­on escala­tes, Hazal’s frus­tra­ti­on about all the rejec­tions erupts into a fatal act. Hazal flees head­long to Istanbul, a stran­ge city in a coun­try unknown to her. There, she has to sur­vi­ve on her own, no mat­ter what the cost.
Ellbogen tells the sto­ry of a young woman who is pushed out of socie­ty and has to reset the cour­se of her life. We want to run through the night with her; we want to know what hap­pens next – for her, and for us all.

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DE/TK/FR 2024, 86 Min., Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Aslı Özarslan
Kamera: Andac Karabeyoglu-Thomas
Schnitt: David J. Achilles, Ana Branea
mit: Melia Kara, Doğa Gürer, Jale Arıkan, Haydar Şahin, Orhan Kiliç, Jamilah Bagdach, Asya Utku, Mina Sağdıç 

Trailer:

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A film by Ruth Beckermann. In German with English subtitles.

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“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 child­ren and their dedi­ca­ted tea­cher. We wan­ted to find out who they are and beco­me fami­li­ar with their skills and stra­te­gies, their joys, fears and hard­ships,” says direc­tor Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 per­cent of all child­ren in Viennese pri­ma­ry schools do not speak German as their first lan­guage. At the same time, the­re is an acu­te shorta­ge of tea­chers and super­vi­sors. Such adver­se con­di­ti­ons are the start­ing point of Ruth Beckermann’s docu­men­ta­ry Favoriten, for which the Austrian film­ma­ker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher fol­lo­wed a Viennese pri­ma­ry school class for three years. The result is an asto­nis­hin­gly cheerful por­trait of an unu­su­al com­mu­ni­ty. A film about tea­ching and lear­ning and the often very sur­pri­sing expe­ri­en­ces some­whe­re in between.

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AT 2024, 118 Min.
Regie: Ruth Beckermann
Kamera: Johannes Hammel
Schnitt: Dieter Pichler

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A film by Tuna Kaptan. Starts September 26th at the fsk. In German, English and Albanian with German subtitles.

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The con­s­truc­tion site of a luxu­ry buil­ding pro­ject at night: The ambi­tious con­s­truc­tion mana­ger Lutz has hired ille­gal con­s­truc­tion workers to save cos­ts. But a tra­gic acci­dent occurs. The next day, a mee­ting with inves­tors is sud­den­ly dis­rupt­ed by 14-year-old Irsa, who is loo­king for her father. While Lutz sen­ses an oppor­tu­ni­ty to make his mark on a mul­ti-mil­li­on dol­lar pro­ject, Irsa’s despe­ra­ti­on keeps dri­ving her towards him. To keep her off his con­s­truc­tion site, he deci­des to take her away. On their jour­ney tog­e­ther, a bond deve­lo­ps, mark­ed by clo­sen­ess and distance, guilt and responsibility.

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DE 2023, 86 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Albanisch mit dt. UT
Regie: Tuna Kaptan
Kamera: Ben Bernhard
Schnitt: Beatrice Babin
mit: Angjela Prenci, Peter Schneider

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